PECOS RIVER RECREATION AREA Located within the heart of Carlsbad, Lake Carlsbad offers fishing, boating, and water-sking. Lake Carlsbad is surrounded by several hundred acres of City-owned parks, a golf course anda lighted lakeside walkway that stretches over 4.5 miles. Other amenities include tennis courts, racquetball courts, play grounds skateboard park, splash pad, water park and the River Walk Youth Recreation Center. Life is better on the river. [TRUE] Carlsbad is NEW MEXICO CarlsbadNMTrue.com Funded in part by city of Carlsbad Lodgers Tax